5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delf \Delf\, n. [AS. delf a delving, digging. See {Delve}.]
A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. [Written also {delft},
and {delve}.] [Obs.]
The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins
or machines could . . . keep them dry. --Ray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delve \Delve\, n. [See {Delve}, v. t., and cf {Delf} a mine.]
A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
Which to that shady delve him brought at last
--Spenser.
The very tigers from their delves Look out --Moore.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delve \Delve\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delved}; p. pr & vb n.
{Delving}.] [AS. delfan to dig; akin to OS bidelban to bury,
D. delven to dig, MHG. telben, and possibly to E. dale. Cf
{Delf} a mine.]
1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.
--Dryden.
2. To dig into to penetrate; to trace out to fathom.
I can not delve him to the root. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delve \Delve\, v. i.
To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as
a drudge.
Delve may I not: I shame to beg. --Wyclif (Luke
xvi. 3).
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
delve
v : turn up loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must" [syn: {dig},
{cut into}, {turn over}]
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